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Quotes About Alone

The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
~ Sappho
Kuu laskenut ja Seulaset On keskiyö, minun aikani on ohi Nukun yksin
~ Sappho
Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my assault on the blank page.
~ Athol Fugard
The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass
~ Chantal Kreviazuk
Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.
~ Vicky Beeching
A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.
~ David Mamet
I'm an introvert. I get my energy by spending time alone. I need that hour or two to myself every day.
~ Amit Bhatia
I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling and whispering... I probably would have wised up and brocken the engagement sooner.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
it is in a house that one is alone. not outside it, but inside. outside, in the garden, there are birds and cats. and also, once, a squirrel, and a ferret. one isn't alone in a garden. but inside the house, one is so alone that one can lose one's bearings.
~ Marguerite Duras
I think I've heard this story before. He died alone? Everyone dies alone.
~ Marisha Pessl
In the opening pages of Genesis, we see that our Trinitarian God made everything "good." The only thing that is not called "good" is that our first father, Adam, was alone. He had creation below him, and God above him, but no one alongside of him to walk as an equal.
~ Mark Driscoll
because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
~ Mark Haddon
When you're alone you can long so hard for something like an embrace that you mine it from the air. You find it in meanings that you might not otherwise grasp, for which it is helpful to arise early in the morning, when the mind is clear and the heart is gentle.
~ Mark Helprin
he quickly became like so many people in New York; that is, comfortable, forgotten, and alone. Though
~ Mark Helprin
Be good and you will be lonesome.
~ Mark Twain
There's something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The Star Gate opened. The Star Gate closed. In a moment of time too short to be measured, Space turned and twisted upon itself. Then Japetus was alone once more, as it had been for three million years--alone, except for a deserted but not yet derelict ship, sending back to its makers messages which they could neither believe nor understand.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Two possibility exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.
~ Shirley Jackson
I am living on the moon, I told myself, I have a little house all by myself on the moon.
~ Shirley Jackson
There's only one of me, and it's all I've got.
~ Shirley Jackson